These are contracts in which a donator provides a dowry to the receiver, who holds the dowry in usufruct, while the title of the dowry remains with the spouse of the receiver.
The Duchy of Bari was an administrative division within the Kingdom of Naples that existed from the early fifteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century.
The Duchy of Milan was a state in Northern Italy established in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti. It was ruled by Habsburg Spain from 1556 and it passed to Habsburg Austria in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The slaveholder named Selvagia Usodimare leases out an enslaved Tatar woman named Maria to a merchant named Leonardo Casandra, for a term of 8 years and total payment of 50 Genoese lire.
The slaveholder named Battista de Ancisa sells an enslaved Russian woman named Margarita, who is approximately 30 years of age, to the merchant named Tommaso Narixio, for 160 Genoese lire.
